Re: Contact Lenses And Dusty Conditions

Posted by NC Wayne on April 27, 2007 at 19:54:26 from (166.82.164.25):

In Reply to: Contact Lenses And Dusty Conditions posted by in-too-deep on April 27, 2007 at 07:12:18:

I'm pushing 40 and have had contact since 4th grade. Granted I went about a 4 year stretch where I didn't wear them because the dirty/dusty conditions I was working in just didn't agree with the contacts available at the time. They weren't disposable, were almost impossible to get clean, and after getting conjunctivitus once they had to go. When I got them again I started back with the Acuvue disposables and I loved them. When I went to the eye doc last year they had changed the material some and are now producing Acuvue 2 lenses which are even more comfortable then the origionals. I've worn mine sport diving over 100 feet down, as well as in a fab shop where I was welding galvaneel all day so there were always welding fumes, grinding, welding flash, etc etc. The it was on to working plant maintance in a hot dip galvanizing plant around all the acids they use, in a plastics extrusion plant which was mainly high heat and light dust, and at a concrete plant where there was always alot of dust. I'm finally settled down and have been for the last 9 years as a heavy equipment mechanic where I'm all the time under or down in a machine and if there are other machines moving around usually plenty of dust, especially when I'm working on a customers rock drills. Like the others have said contacts can cause problems and they aren't for everyone. You do have to maintain them just like anything else and occasionally you'll still need your glasses to let your eyes rest. It sounds like alot but it beats glasses all the time. Think about it, the worst you can do is give them a try and find they don't work out for you. Most docs will give you a sample pair to try if you get the exam so I say go for it, you've got nothing to lose but your glasses. Good luck.

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